How many CMEs come off the Sun every day?
Sean – currently we’re getting about 5 CMEs per day, hopefully more! We hope you’re interested in watching the CMEs with us as we get toward solar maximum. Day to day, the number of CMEs varies a lot. During solar minimum, the average number of CMEs per day is only 1-2. Sometimes there are none, some days there are more, but on average just a few. If there is a region on the Sun which is really active, it can produce a lot of eruptions. Right now, we’re closer to solar maximum, so we are dealing with a lot more CMEs. Today we’ve already had four! We’ll probably get quite a few more by the end of the day. During solar maximum, we can get up to 10 CMEs per day – can you imagine keeping track of all of them?? Dr.
